Abstract: An examination of model water masses in the North Pacific Ocean is performed in the Community Climate System version 3 (CCSM3) and its ocean-only counterpart. While the surface properties of the ocean are well represented ...

Abstract: An isopycnal model coupled with a mixed layer model is used to study transformation and formation rates in the North Pacific. When annual formation rates are averaged over the entire North Pacific, a large peak in water ...

Abstract: An isopycnal model forced with wind stress and heat fluxes from 1965 through 1993 was used to examine the effects of variable atmospheric forcing on the ventilation of the North Pacific. During this time period, a climatic ...

Abstract: The effects of one-dimensional processes on the formation of deep mixed layers in the central mode water (CMW) and eastern subtropical mode water (ESMW) formation regions of the North Pacific have been analyzed using a ...

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the conditions under which a free solution of the steady, one-layer, quasi-geostrophic equation on a ?-plane is realized in the inviscid limit. We restrict attention to the case where no body force ...

Abstract: Quasi-linear theory and numerical models are used to study the mean flow modification of a two-layer shallow water baroclinically unstable flow as a function of Rossby number. This flow has an upper-layer potential vorticity ...

Abstract: The dynamics of Lagrangian particles and tracers in the vicinity of a baroclinically unstable zonal jet are investigated in a simple two-layer model with an initially quiescent lower layer. The presence of a growing wave ...

Abstract: Tracer transport mechanisms in a deep western boundary current (DWBC) are explored using a three-layer, eddy-resolving quasigeostrophic model. The model is forced with a steady, sinusoidal wind stress. The effects of the ...

Abstract: Enhanced decadal variability in sea surface temperature (SST) centered on the Kuroshio Extension (KE) has been found in the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) as well as in other coupled climate models. This ...

Abstract: Both wind and buoyancy forcing result in variability in the North Pacific Ocean thermocline. A vertical modal analysis of the density deviations in a 30-yr run of an ocean general circulation model of the North Pacific ...